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Professor uses mold to liquefy coal
A USC biology professor is using a common bread mold to liquefy coal
and convert it to a safer-to-burn coal product.
"Liquefying coal shows great promise in helping to clean up the environment
and lowering the costs of mining coal," said Nawin Mishra, a professor
in USC's biology department.
Solid coal, when burned, creates sulfurous emissions that mix with rain
drops in the atmosphere to form acid rain.
Certain bacteria can remove sulfur from coal, but the bacteria can
remove it more effectively when the coal is liquefied.
Using a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mishra
has identified at least one enzyme responsible for coal liquefication. That
enzyme is found in a species of bread mold called neurospora.
School of Medicine receives new fund
The USC School of Medicine has been endowed with a new fund to be
used for the study of chronic depression.
The fund was set up by the family of Mark Steven Smith.
Smith waged a 10-year battle against chronic depression, finally committing
suicide in 1986. He had completed his studies at USC-Spartanburg
when he died.
USCS posthumously awarded Smith his degree in recognition of his
outstanding academic record and as a tribute to his courage.
Anyone willing to make a donation to the Mark Steven Smith fund
should contact USC's development office.
Scholor to speak on black religion
Deotis Roberts, a noted black scholar, will deliver two lectures Thursday
at USC.
Roberts is a distinguished professor of philosophical theology at Eastern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and has preached, lectured
and. conducted research on six continents.
The lectures, sponsored by USC's religious studies department, will take
place at 4 p.m. in room 250 of Gambrell Hall and at 8 p.m. in Rutledge
v^napei on i ne Horsesnoe.
The afternoon talk is titled "Black Religion and Human Rights," and
the evening lecture will be "Black Survival Institutions: Church, Family
and College."
College of Education to get new dean
The College of Education at USC will have a new dean come July 1.
Richard E. Ishler has been named to the position. He will succeed John
King, who has been serving as interem dean since the retirement of John
Mulhern in 1987.
Ishler is nationally known for his work in teacher education and has
been dean of the College of Education at Texas Technical University since
1983.
USC Provost Arthur Smith praised Ishler's work.
"Dr. Ishler has superb credentials as an administrator and in the important
work of teacher training," he said. "His background, experience and
expertise will be invaluable as the university's College of Education continues
tp work with the state of South Carolina to improve our schools."
Ishler earned his bachelor's degree in elementary education from Lock
Haven State College in Pennsylvania and his master's and doctoral degrees
from Pennsylvania State University.
Department to honor former professor
USC's biology department will honor the late James T. Penney, a
former biology professor at USC, on March 29.
Penney, who served the university from 1929-1964, will be remembered
at the university in the form of the Coker Life Sciences building's reading
room.
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Frederick Harrison, chairman of the biology department at Western
Carolina University and a former student of Penney's, will speak at the
occasion.
Former students, friends, family and emeriti faculty are invited to the
ceremony.
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Counties, with voter approval, would be allowec
to raise the sales tax to 6 percent locally while usinj
half the proceeds to lower property taxes undei
legislation introduced Thursday by House Speakei
Robert Sheheen.
The local-option sales tax bill, which would increase
the current 5 percent tax, was sent to the
Ways and Means Committee after taking the first
step in the legislative process. The day before, city
officials from across the state fanned out in the
Statehouse lobby to gather co-sponsors for the bill.
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the 15th annual winter meeting of the Municipal
Association of South Carolina, convinced 35 cosponsors
to sign the measure immediately.
"Get hold of your representative's arm and twist
it as hard as you need to get support," said
Howard Duvall, the association's director of intergovernmental
relations.
Duvall estimated the bill, if approved, could
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lobby for the bill.
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tax for their counties if the legislature passes the
bill. Separate referendums would be held in each of
the 46 counties on the same day, but each county
would vote whether to increase the sales tax by a
penny on the dollar only in that county.
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would be divided by giving 67 percent to counties
and 33 percent to cities.
Car taxes would be reduced in proportion to the
other property taxes. The bill also would set up a
fund paid for by wealthier cities to guarantee that
all ritifs anrl tnu/nc xvr?nIH opt ot lfact S million
in sales taxes, regardless of how much they raised.
The fund would be used to make up the difference
in what the city raised in sales taxes and $1.5
million.
The bill has a good chance of passing this year,
predicts Rock Hill Mayor Betty Jo Rhea, president
of the Municipal Association.
"I think it's a real milestone that we got with the
counties," she said, adding that "that we need to
work together to get alternative sources of
revenue."
This is the third straight year the association has
pushed for the local-option sales tax.
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t USC are where students' parents would be
hould be notified that their daughter lives in a
dorm that allows overnight visitael
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tration as the arrangement.
i policies Adoption of severe penalties
:styles. for drug possession in the residence
on for all halls.
nd atten- tison said.
etingswas Gilbert was interviewed about the
vigil by local radio stations WUSC
on The and WWDM.
' the cam- The vigil concluded with the recitaAssembly
tion of the poem "Sharpeville" by
Klaus Maphepha and a prayer by
as exten- Gilbert asking for USC "to divest
for other and make this truly a kinder, gentler
Kim Mat- nation."
Solomon said, because the Gemini is suited
more toward physics problems,
recquires whereas the IBM could be more
the IBM suited for problems such as
ailable." chemistry.
ises IBM When the Gemini is fully operaare
could tional, it will be more powerful than
the new a comparable IBM computer. In the
onverting meantime, USC needs both kinds of
d take up technology, Solomon said.
"We're working with two different
s would timeframes: the present and the
Solomon future."
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